there's a reason for the height entry being new each and every time as a change in height either direction can indicate certain problems - a good example is a sudden gainning of 2 inches (5cm) in a very short time frame could indicate a glandular problem.
Or simply a typically teenage growth spurt.
Depending on your definition of Short Time Frame, anything out of the ordinary would be noticed, and asking for a measurement to be entered on every visit is ridiculous, unless those visits are years apart.
The chance of any object large enough to leave a crater visible from earth on the moon being shielded by earth, is very small. While the earth is roughly four times the diameter of the moon, it's at such a distance that it covers a very small part of the total area from which objects from space will hit it.
You seem to forget that the impactors of that time were all left over debris from a large body impacting the earth, and this junk was orbiting in a loose ring mostly within the orbital path of the Earth. These weren't random asteroids or comets coming in from the oort cloud or some such place.
When the earth precedes the moon as the earth orbits the sun, it will sweep all the big impactors in its path, and only a few near-miss smaller impactors will deflected into the moon. Similarly, When the moon leads the earth in the orbit, it will be the back side of the moon that leads, not the earth facing side.
When the moon is beside the earth, you could argue that they would both be hit with the frequency dependent on their diameter.
If you insist that the earth would not shield the moon, you must com up with an alternate theory as to why the back side if the moon is more heavily cratered than the earth side.
(Also the plane of the Moon's orbit around earth is not on the same plane as the earth's orbit around the sun, and the moon would spend a considerable amount of orbit out central portion of the debris field. Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees.)
Dunno about the "Moon" part, but they are needed for the "Walk" part.
But two legs is purely an anthropomorphic choice.
If there is a reason to not use wheels (I haven't heard any), then surely 4 legs or maybe 6 make more sense than two. The load carrying capability is greater, the ballance issue is easier to handle and fall recovery less of an issue.
It takes extra effort to only grab control traffic, ignoring the data.
Actually they had intended ALL along to only capture router macs and GPS coordinates but failed to make that change to the hardware. They used common off the shelf Open Source software, and had already identified the patch they needed to apply to drop everything but the mac address from the beacon. Somehow that patch never was applied. They had already done ALL the work that was needed. No more additional effort was needed.
Far more effort was involved changing disk drives in the Streetview cars after they found them to be filling up with excess data, that they never intended to collect.
The last one (the latest) is an order from the US Government, and Google being a US company, it was obligated to do so. The Brazilians are too late to the party. Google should not have any data left to Sort or to Turn over.
The point is that the spending on Nuclear energy may vastly exceed the revenue from Oil sales since the US has reduced its demand to the point that it cuts Iranian exports in half, and the international price drops.
When you look at the Nuclear expenditure and the increasingly real probability that Israel will destroy it the minute it becomes active, there is even more reason for the Iranians to stall for time by pretending to negotiate.
Wait, that's a cute theory, but it doesn't explain anything.
First that theory assumes the the moon became instantly tidally locked from near the moment of its creation, which seems highly unlikely for a body born of an impact, followed by re-impact. (The debris impacts on the far side would occur more often, because the near side would not be shielded by the earth, but that works ONLY once the proto-moon is tidally locked.).
I'm not sure there is much in the way of evidence for exactly when the moon became tidally locked.
On the other hand, with reduced demand for their Oil, (due to the US being a net exporter of oil), there is more oil available on the market. Other oil importers don't need to go to Iran.
Theoretically, with less of a market for oil Iran should not need Nuclear power and could be meeting their energy demands with modern oil and gas generation facilities, Far less costly and easier to build.
Therefore, they don't NEED nuclear. And they can't make the claim that the do. If Iran was really after power production all along, they should be willing to delay nuclear. If that was never their real goal, then these talks may lead nowhere.
News reports suggest that a deal is no where near as close as this cheerleading article suggests.
So the article is a bit pre-mature. I think there are talks mostly because there was an election, and there was a change in tactics on the part of Iran, who probably realize they are inching closer to being on the receiving a preemptive strike and they see their last friend in the region, Syria, being ground into dust by civil war in spite of Iran's help).
So, 30 dollars per student in a mid sized institution like, for example, the University of Minnesota, comes to a couple million dollars per year. Average that across the 50 states, and you have a cool Hunderd Million. Throw in non-state institutions, a few Canadian institutions and you have to wonder where 250 million per year is going.
With every university running a computer network and a web site, paying for servers is the least costly component of research. With modern indexing tools (to day nothing of Google or Bing), making these accessible while not actually centralizing their storage is trivial.
Still, the transition to open journals you postulate can't forget that the whole process depends on some method of distinguishing actual scientific research from junk science posted by whack jobs. That is why journals sprang up in the first place. It has always been a process of gate-keeping.
Science might take a look at the model of Kernel Developers, and other avid PGP users and hold key signing sessions at their public meetings. Then start using those keys to sign their works. If for no other reason than to make it easier for all to know, by listing the signers of any author's keys, whether the guy is a kook or not.
You may know your peers, your students, or your teachers, but does anyone 4 time zones away, or will anyone in 20 years?
Interesting how ESA bills this as "good test for debris monitoring systems and fragmentation models", but had a US satellite landed anywhere in the EU, they would be holding investigations, demanding reparations, and publicly chastising NASA for poor planning and reckless disregard of human safety.
Metal burns just fine, and light aluminum burns extremely well. I once saw a guy welding on the tongue of an airstream trailer, and the structure caught fire. Before the fire department could get there, the entire trailer structure was a white ball hovering above the ground, too bright to look at for more than a second or two.
I rather suspect the Geeks around you have a similar opinion of you.
They probably consider you a total technological misfit, more suited to an agrarian life style, without a care in the world as long as a circle of equally vapid friends are around to cheer you up with a constant stream of gossip and partying. Totally clueless about how anything around you works, but you happy as long as pushing the button gives you your Pavlovian reward so that you don't have to actually figure out anything works. You don't like to think about numbers greater than 10, or looking at written instructions. Your chances of survival after a flat tire depend solely on the next car that comes down the road, so you never venture out of walking distance to the next mall. Electricity is beyond your ken, plumbing is a black art, you have no idea where water comes from or where sewage goes to. Someone installed an operating system on your computer for you, and you've mastered pushing of buttons, but as soon as that fails, you will junk it and go get another computer.
The real threat to the auto industry is the Tesla distribution model that has all the dealers in the US up in arms.
Exactly. Every dealer is gunning for Tesla, even while the big US automakers and the Japan automakers are secretly hoping Tesla can prove this distribution model works. They would all secretly love to sell direct.
But dealers are going to point out every flaw with Tesla to everyone who will listen.
In the meantime The Volt, Leaf, and Tesla will probably all add Kevlar battery protection, thermal breaks between battery segments and go about their business just as Boeing did.
Was the author getting any financial supprt from the Tesla car company ?
Really, you're going with that? Who paid you to post that? (So sick of people claiming anyone with a different opinion must be paid to post. I'd be rich if I had a hundred bucks for every time I'm accused of being Paid by X, only to be accused of being paid by X's competitors on the next post, often in the same thread.). You've been around here long enough to know better.
What the fuel source is has nothing to do with the statistics at hand. Fires per mile traveled is as good a measure as any other.
The fact remains that every self automobile has a combustible substance on board. Some burn less than others. Comparing power sources for safety is a perfectly normal thing to do, and when you do it, electricity looks way safer than gasoline.
What is in it for you? You get to use a Google service for free. That's what. Obviously nobody is forcing you. So there is little room to complain.
I look at their ads. Its not exactly free is it?
(And before someone thinks to school me on Adblock, I already have it. But there is a lot of stuff on the net you simply can't get to with Adblock turned on).
I keep seeing the seeing these paranoid critters screaming bloody murder about being forced to use Google+. What exactly is the issue with creating a Google+ account and not adding any information you do not want to share? Please enlighten me!
Has the privacy disaster that is Facebook not once entered your brain after all these years?
People are losing jobs, and failing to get jobs, because of this nonsense, people are being forced to turn over social network account passwords, and the accounts, with or without passwords are being mined, not only by advertisers, but also by government agencies.
Look, its fine that you buy into this stuff, but don't drag me into it, just because you don't see a problem in your little world. Even teenagers are starting to realize facebook is a trap.
There is simply no reason to believe Google+ is going to be any different. You can see the creeping invasion already.
Well, first, you missed the bit about it being retracted.
But besides that, Feedly has nothing to gain by pumping up Google+. (Unless there is some money changing hands under the table).
Google is out of the feed reader business, so all you really need is an account at Feedly. They would like to pawn off the authentication server stuff onto someone else. But they are just serving up news feeds. There is really no reason to have any account details at all on hand, and they could just hand out random numbers for accounts.
The problem here is that Feedly is finding it just as hard to monetize RSS as Google did, because, quite frankly, RSS was never intended to be monetized. It was intended to bring you to feeder's web site.
But once you have things like Feedly and before that Google Reader scraping the full stories linked to the feeds, it becomes unprofitable for feedly, and unprofitable for the Feed sites, because nobody visits the sites anymore.
I read a couple dozen feeds. On some feeds I never visit the site. On others, I have my reader (not feedly) set up to automatically go to the site, scrape the page via Google Mobilizer and show me just the text. No pictures, adds or any of that. The upside, those things aren't fetched from the site, saving them bandwidth. The downside, the site makes no money from me.
NHTSA did not find a vehicle-based cause of those incidents in addition to those causes already addressed by Toyota recalls.
The problem is that the timeline gets muddied here, because this "Did not find vehicle based cause" announcement came out in February 8, 2011, WELL after other FORCED recall, it this study was just to see if ALL the causes previously mandated to be fixed were in fact fixed on all the vehicle in question. Its by no means the exoneration you suggest, simply a statement that Toyota did not have a new issue after cleaning up the old ones dating back to 2005.
The first recall was announced on September 26, 2007, and was followed by a subsequent one on October 6, 2009. The October recall was expanded on January 29, 2010, to include additional vehicles. The third recall, involving sticking gas pedals, was announced on January 21, 2010.
Toyota has been in denial mode since 2005, and has paid in excess of 48 million in fines for foot dragging in addition to being forced to stage 3 separate recalls..
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there's a reason for the height entry being new each and every time as a change in height either direction can indicate certain problems - a good example is a sudden gainning of 2 inches (5cm) in a very short time frame could indicate a glandular problem.
Or simply a typically teenage growth spurt.
Depending on your definition of Short Time Frame, anything out of the ordinary would be noticed, and asking for a measurement to be entered on every visit is ridiculous, unless those visits are years apart.
They DID change the software you moron! They stopped collecting the mountain of data and stripped out just the beacons as soon as they discovered it.
There is no profit from random unreliable snippets of wifi traffic, you idiot.
If there was, there would be people camped out side you house recording every thing you do.
The chance of any object large enough to leave a crater visible from earth on the moon being shielded by earth, is very small. While the earth is roughly four times the diameter of the moon, it's at such a distance that it covers a very small part of the total area from which objects from space will hit it.
You seem to forget that the impactors of that time were all left over debris from a large body impacting the earth, and this junk was orbiting in a loose ring mostly within the orbital path of the Earth. These weren't random asteroids or comets coming in from the oort cloud or some such place.
When the earth precedes the moon as the earth orbits the sun, it will sweep all the big impactors in its path, and only a few near-miss smaller impactors will deflected into the moon. Similarly, When the moon leads the earth in the orbit, it will be the back side of the moon that leads, not the earth facing side.
When the moon is beside the earth, you could argue that they would both be hit with the frequency dependent on their diameter.
If you insist that the earth would not shield the moon, you must com up with an alternate theory as to why the back side if the moon is more heavily cratered than the earth side.
(Also the plane of the Moon's orbit around earth is not on the same plane as the earth's orbit around the sun, and the moon would spend a considerable amount of orbit out central portion of the debris field. Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees.)
Dunno about the "Moon" part, but they are needed for the "Walk" part.
But two legs is purely an anthropomorphic choice.
If there is a reason to not use wheels (I haven't heard any), then surely 4 legs or maybe 6 make more sense than two.
The load carrying capability is greater, the ballance issue is easier to handle and fall recovery less of an issue.
No they didn't do it on purpose. They already had the patch in hand to only collect beacon packets, not data, but one engineer left that patch out.
If it was on purpose, they wouldn't have come forward with the information at all.
It takes extra effort to only grab control traffic, ignoring the data.
Actually they had intended ALL along to only capture router macs and GPS coordinates but failed to make that change to the hardware. They used common off the shelf Open Source software, and had already identified the patch they needed to apply to drop everything but the mac address from the beacon. Somehow that patch
never was applied. They had already done ALL the work that was needed. No more additional effort was needed.
Far more effort was involved changing disk drives in the Streetview cars after they found them to be filling up with excess data, that they never intended to collect.
"Which part of "up to a maximum of $500,000" did you not understand?"
What really makes this a joke is that sorting out and turning over the data could actually cost them almost as much.
What makes you think they even still have the data?
After all, this happened, how many years ago?
Google has already published its intent to destroy all of this data, and it has been ordered to do so in several countries already:
http://www.techhelpfox.com/tutorial/1283730/Australian-Government-Google-Must-Destroy-Street-View-Data,-Commit-To-Third-party-Audit
http://www.insidecounsel.com/2013/06/21/uk-regulator-orders-google-to-destroy-user-data-co
http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/12/google-street-view-settlement/
The last one (the latest) is an order from the US Government, and Google being a US company, it was obligated to do so. The Brazilians are too late to the party. Google should not have any data left to Sort or to Turn over.
Yes, yes, thank you Captain Obvious.
The point is that the spending on Nuclear energy may vastly exceed the revenue from Oil sales since the US has reduced its demand to the point that it cuts Iranian exports in half, and the international price drops.
When you look at the Nuclear expenditure and the increasingly real probability that Israel will destroy it the minute it becomes active, there is even more reason for the Iranians to stall for time by pretending to negotiate.
Its unusual
And, yes, Muphry's law was proven once again.
I, for one, would have picked another adjective.
Scourge has always had a verb form. That that is what was used, not its adjective form.
Its unusual in the modern era to see the verb form, but its actually older than you think.
Wait, that's a cute theory, but it doesn't explain anything.
First that theory assumes the the moon became instantly tidally locked from near the moment of its creation, which seems highly unlikely for a body born of an impact, followed by re-impact. (The debris impacts on the far side would occur more often, because the near side would not be shielded by the earth, but that works ONLY once the proto-moon is tidally locked.).
I'm not sure there is much in the way of evidence for exactly when the moon became tidally locked.
True. But the sanctions were never all that impervious.
On the other hand, with reduced demand for their Oil, (due to the US being a net exporter of oil), there is more oil available on the market. Other oil importers don't need to go to Iran.
Theoretically, with less of a market for oil Iran should not need Nuclear power and could be meeting their energy demands with modern oil and gas generation facilities, Far less costly and easier to build.
Therefore, they don't NEED nuclear. And they can't make the claim that the do. If Iran was really after power production all along, they should be willing to delay nuclear. If that was never their real goal, then these talks may lead nowhere.
News reports suggest that a deal is no where near as close as this cheerleading article suggests.
So the article is a bit pre-mature. I think there are talks mostly because there was an election, and there was a change in tactics on the part of Iran, who probably realize they are inching closer to being on the receiving a preemptive strike and they see their last friend in the region, Syria, being ground into dust by civil war in spite of Iran's help).
So, 30 dollars per student in a mid sized institution like, for example, the University of Minnesota, comes to a couple million dollars per year.
Average that across the 50 states, and you have a cool Hunderd Million. Throw in non-state institutions, a few Canadian institutions and you have to wonder where 250 million per year is going.
With every university running a computer network and a web site, paying for servers is the least costly component of research.
With modern indexing tools (to day nothing of Google or Bing), making these accessible while not actually centralizing their storage is trivial.
Still, the transition to open journals you postulate can't forget that the whole process depends on some method of distinguishing actual scientific research from junk science posted by whack jobs. That is why journals sprang up in the first place. It has always been a process of gate-keeping.
Science might take a look at the model of Kernel Developers, and other avid PGP users and hold key signing sessions at their public meetings. Then start using those keys to sign their works. If for no other reason than to make it easier for all to know, by listing the signers of any author's keys, whether the guy is a kook or not.
You may know your peers, your students, or your teachers, but does anyone 4 time zones away, or will anyone in 20 years?
Interesting how ESA bills this as "good test for debris monitoring systems and fragmentation models", but had a US satellite landed anywhere in the EU, they would be holding investigations, demanding reparations, and publicly chastising NASA for poor planning and reckless disregard of human safety.
Metal doesn't burn easy, and this is likely moving a *lot* slower than most iron meteors that manage to burn up anyway.
Really?
Here's what we send up: http://i.space.com/images/i/000/010/556/original/Sacriflight_AW.jpg?1309195668
Here's all we got back:
http://i.space.com/images/i/000/003/207/original/080228-cs-02.jpg?1292266925
Here's what it looked like coming back:
http://www.wfaa.com/video/featured-videos/RAW-VIDEO--189393891.html
Metal burns just fine, and light aluminum burns extremely well. I once saw a guy welding on the tongue of an airstream trailer, and the structure caught fire. Before the fire department could get there, the entire trailer structure was a white ball hovering above the ground, too bright to look at for more than a second or two.
I rather suspect the Geeks around you have a similar opinion of you.
They probably consider you a total technological misfit, more suited to an agrarian life style, without a care in the world as long as a circle of equally vapid friends are around to cheer you up with a constant stream of gossip and partying. Totally clueless about how anything around you works, but you happy as long as pushing the button gives you your Pavlovian reward so that you don't have to actually figure out anything works. You don't like to think about numbers greater than 10, or looking at written instructions. Your chances of survival after a flat tire depend solely on the next car that comes down the road, so you never venture out of walking distance to the next mall. Electricity is beyond your ken, plumbing is a black art, you have no idea where water comes from or where sewage goes to. Someone installed an operating system on your computer for you, and you've mastered pushing of buttons, but as soon as that fails, you will junk it and go get another computer.
Oh, it's much easier than that.
I just refuse to sign up for Google Plus.
Done.
The real threat to the auto industry is the Tesla distribution model that has all the dealers in the US up in arms.
Exactly.
Every dealer is gunning for Tesla, even while the big US automakers and the Japan automakers are secretly hoping Tesla can prove
this distribution model works. They would all secretly love to sell direct.
But dealers are going to point out every flaw with Tesla to everyone who will listen.
In the meantime The Volt, Leaf, and Tesla will probably all add Kevlar battery protection, thermal breaks between battery segments and go about their business just as Boeing did.
Was the author getting any financial supprt from the Tesla car company ?
Really, you're going with that? Who paid you to post that? (So sick of people claiming anyone with a different opinion must be paid to post. I'd be rich if I had a hundred bucks for every time I'm accused of being Paid by X, only to be accused of being paid by X's competitors on the next post, often in the same thread.). You've been around here long enough to know better.
What the fuel source is has nothing to do with the statistics at hand. Fires per mile traveled is as good a measure as any other.
The fact remains that every self automobile has a combustible substance on board. Some burn less than others. Comparing power sources for safety is a perfectly normal thing to do, and when you do it, electricity looks way safer than gasoline.
Why is that so hard for your to see?
What is in it for you? You get to use a Google service for free. That's what. Obviously nobody is forcing you. So there is little room to complain.
I look at their ads. Its not exactly free is it?
(And before someone thinks to school me on Adblock, I already have it. But there is a lot of stuff on the net you simply can't get to with Adblock turned on).
I keep seeing the seeing these paranoid critters screaming bloody murder about being forced to use Google+. What exactly is the issue with creating a Google+ account and not adding any information you do not want to share? Please enlighten me!
Has the privacy disaster that is Facebook not once entered your brain after all these years?
People are losing jobs, and failing to get jobs, because of this nonsense, people are being forced to turn over social network account passwords, and the accounts, with or without passwords are being mined, not only by advertisers, but also by government agencies.
Look, its fine that you buy into this stuff, but don't drag me into it, just because you don't see a problem in your little world. Even teenagers are starting to realize facebook is a trap.
There is simply no reason to believe Google+ is going to be any different. You can see the creeping invasion already.
Well, first, you missed the bit about it being retracted.
But besides that, Feedly has nothing to gain by pumping up Google+. (Unless there is some money changing hands under the table).
Google is out of the feed reader business, so all you really need is an account at Feedly. They would like to pawn off the
authentication server stuff onto someone else. But they are just serving up news feeds. There is really no reason to
have any account details at all on hand, and they could just hand out random numbers for accounts.
The problem here is that Feedly is finding it just as hard to monetize RSS as Google did, because, quite frankly, RSS was never
intended to be monetized. It was intended to bring you to feeder's web site.
But once you have things like Feedly and before that Google Reader scraping the full stories linked to the feeds, it becomes unprofitable
for feedly, and unprofitable for the Feed sites, because nobody visits the sites anymore.
I read a couple dozen feeds. On some feeds I never visit the site. On others, I have my reader (not feedly) set up to automatically go to
the site, scrape the page via Google Mobilizer and show me just the text. No pictures, adds or any of that.
The upside, those things aren't fetched from the site, saving them bandwidth. The downside, the site makes no money from me.
NHTSA did not find a vehicle-based cause of those incidents in addition to those causes already addressed by Toyota recalls.
The problem is that the timeline gets muddied here, because this "Did not find vehicle based cause" announcement came out in February 8, 2011, WELL after other FORCED recall, it this study was just to see if ALL the causes previously mandated to be fixed were in fact fixed on all the vehicle in question. Its by no means the exoneration you suggest, simply a statement that Toyota did not have a new issue after cleaning up the old ones dating back to 2005.
The first recall was announced on September 26, 2007, and was followed by a subsequent one on October 6, 2009. The October recall was expanded on January 29, 2010, to include additional vehicles. The third recall, involving sticking gas pedals, was announced on January 21, 2010.
Toyota has been in denial mode since 2005, and has paid in excess of 48 million in fines for foot dragging in addition to being forced to stage 3 separate recalls..